PSF Estimation Method of Simple-Lens Camera Using Normal Sinh-Arcsinh Model Based on Noise Image Pairs

Abstract

With the development of computational photography, single-lens camera combined with corresponding image deblurring algorithm is gradually becoming a new research direction, replacing complex modern optical imaging system such as single lens reflex (SLR) camera. For single-lens camera, the Point Spread Function (PSF) estimation accuracy will directly affect the image restoration effect. In this paper, we designed the simple-lens cameras with one, two and three lenses, respectively, and propose a robust and accurate PSF estimation method of simple-lens camera. The key point of estimation is to obtain the blur image and clear image pairs, which are necessary for non-blind deconvolution PSF estimation. Considering the structure characteristic of simple-lens camera, we take picture of original clear image displayed on the computer screen to get the image pairs through corner detection and color correction is made to remove color distortion. In addition, a few studies have shown that the PSF of the simple lens is close to the spatially deformed wedge, so we use a more reasonable Normal Sinh-Arcsinh (NSAS) model to fit the blur kernel and get its parameters by Powell algorithm. The experiment results have shown that the space-variant PSF estimated by the proposed method achieves better performance than the compared methods both qualitatively and quantitatively.

Keywords

• Simple-lens camera
• noise image pairs
• PSF estimation
• color correction
• NSAS model